Marilyn MacGruder Barnewall began her career as a journalist with the Wyoming Eagle in Cheyenne. During her 20 year banking career, she wrote extensively for The American Banker, Bank Marketing Magazine, Trust Marketing Magazine, and other major industry publications. The American Bankers Association (ABA) published Barnewall’s Profitable Private Banking: the Complete Blueprint, in 1987. She taught private banking at Colorado University for the ABA and trained private bankers in Singapore.

Sunday, March 25, 2018

CHAOS: Joshua Vs. Jericho And Trump Vs. Deep State

By Marilyn M. Barnewall

Mar 25, 2018

Did you know that 53 percent of Americans are either very or
somewhat worried about the federal government monitoring or invading their
privacy? 24 percent are not too worried, 22 percent are not at all worried and
1 percent don’t know if they are worried. They probably live in one of the
legalized pot states.

Did you know that according to Joseph Bannister, former IRS
investigator, there were 1.3 million cases of identity theft by illegal aliens
from 2011-16? In 2017, an additional 1.2 million cases of tax refund
fraud occurred as illegal aliens used someone else’s Social Security number and
filed income tax returns – and got rebates. These represent only the ones
who were caught… but Bannister says zero confirmed cases were referred to the
Department of Justice or the investigative branch of the IRS for prosecution.

Evidently, you have to be an American citizen to be prosecuted for
violating IRS laws. If one of us stole someone else’s identity to get a
job or a credit card, or if we filed a phony tax return to get a refund and got
caught, we’d be in jail.

That idea tends to support the liberal progressive Democrat belief
that illegal aliens are entitled to more consideration by government than
Americans born in this country. Dreamers (DACA) are idolized by
Democrats.

The IRS is run by liberals. Most government bureaucrats are
liberal. When Lois Lerner, director of the Exempt Organizations Unit (501
(c) (3) at IRS, took the Fifth and refused to testify in a Congressional
Committee Hearing, Congress had no control over that agency… or any other, if
the FBI and Department of Justice are any indication.

Is it any wonder that Americans have no confidence in
government? All government seems capable of doing is creating chaos!

Interestingly, a lot of brainiacs who spend their days looking out
of think tank windows believe that chaos provides the quickest road to defeat
American nationalism and is a quick road to a collectivist new world
order. It is well known that people, especially voters, cannot think
straight in the midst of chaos. Since Democrats have no viable political
platform for the 2018 elections, it appears they have opted for chaos… thus
James Comey, Robert Mueller, RussiaBait, etc.

A lot happened in this week’s news that pushes the “create chaos”
meter forward.

This week’s news
announced that senior management levels of our taxpayer-funded intelligence
agencies have established their own set of rules (and possibly coordinate with
rogue intelligence agents around the world) to remove from office a duly
elected constitutional President. The Deep State makes a joke of the
Constitution they took an Oath to defend from enemies, both foreign and
domestic.

Isn’t there a penalty for a violation of Oath of Office?

We will likely never know because of a (rare) factual answer
provided by Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on MSNBC about whether President
Trump’s investigation into the Deep State was taking on America’s intelligence
agencies.

“You take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from
Sunday of getting back at you,” Senator Schumer said, smiling.

Looking at the evidence (not just opinions, but hard evidence) of
the firing of Assistant FBI Director Andrew McCabe a week ago, the FBI seems to
think it gets to make its own rules and each agent is free to interpret them
and also decide if they will follow them. Constitutionally, however, they
are required to follow the rules of the Department of Justice (if anyone is
there to enforce them). One would hope the DOJ follows and enforces the
laws as defined by our Constitution, but there is little evidence it’s being
applied to elitists and intelligence operatives.

Also in this week’s news, after President Trump signed a budget
that included a giant deficit and then placed a huge tariff penalty on Chinese
imports, the stock market dropped like a rock and ended the week down more than
7 percent. The market is still far ahead of where it was when Trump took
office and the GDP maintains a 3 percent growth level for the first time in
many years, but this kind of market reaction is unsettling, to say the least.

Are you aware that Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao’s family
(wife of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell) owns a major Hong Kong-based
shipping company, Foremost Maritime Corporation, that delivers Chinese goods to
America? Was Trump sending the McConnells a hidden message?
Whatever his purpose, he enraged his conservative base – and rightfully
so. Be patient. There is a chess game going on here.

Millennials and other children learned that Mark Zuckerberg,
creator of their personal ego mirror, Facebook, has been sharing their
“personal” data (which they post on the worldwide web by choice) with every
kind of hoodlum, worldwide. Like Lois Lerner, Zuckerberg thinks he should
be the one to determine which political views are made available to the
public. He’s in trouble.

In Austin, TX, a 24-year old and very attractive young man with a
gentle smile placed bombs on people’s doorsteps – or took them to Federal
Express – to kill and maim complete strangers. Neighbors say he was
raised by good parents who were very involved in his life and that the family
seemed happy and normal in every way.

Did the chaos get to him? So much of our chaotic news and
entertainment and computer and cell phone games involve violence! Or was
he a victim of the feminist drive to remove male dominant traits from boys and
replace them with feminine traits (“either change or take Ritalin”)?
Girls are easier to handle. We will never get the answer to that
question.

Thousands of mostly young people attended a March for our Lives
protest in Washington, D.C., yesterday. They demand stricter gun controls
in reaction to the high school shootings in Florida three weeks ago where 17
lives were lost. There were voter registration booths at this function
and at 800 other protests scheduled around the country yesterday, according to
Stephen Gutowski, a reporter for the Washington Free Beacon.
Now why do you suppose they wanted to register voters during these protests?

If you want to know for which political perspective these protests
were organized, you need only know that those who are financially supporting
them include Michael Bloomberg, George Soros, George Clooney, and other
well-known liberal progressive Democrats. The dollars provided also
helped organize the huge effort to remove guns from the hands of
Americans. I refer you to my News With Views article
on the Florida shooting and gun control.

Since becoming Gun Free Zones, students in our schools have become
helpless potential victims for the mentally depraved and people angered beyond
reason with life in general. These people are free to walk into any
school and start shooting. No one is there to stop them because schools
are “Gun Free” zones.

You cannot fault kids or their parents for wanting something done
to make schools safe again! America’s children are entitled to safe
schools!

Who started the concept of Gun Free Zones in our schools?

Former Vice President Joe Biden, a liberal progressive Democrat,
introduced the Gun-Free School Zones Act which was signed into law in November
of 1990. The Bill prevents any person from knowingly possessing a firearm
in a school zone. Joe probably has a Facebook page which he believes is
being held in strict confidence by Mark Zuckerberg, too. The Democrats
think he would be a good candidate for President in 2020?

I’m waiting for people to tell me why these students aren’t
protesting about kids who kill far more people while driving and texting than
school shootings do. In 2014, 42 percent of teens said they texted while
driving. More than half of all road traffic deaths — averaging 3,287 per
day — occur among young adults.

I’d like to know when they are going to raise the driving age to
21 or force stricter laws on families with children when they buy a car.
Perhaps they could make an engine that automatically turns off when a cell
phone is activated in a car?

Moreover, the school shooting deaths are a tiny percentage of the
killing of unborn babies by Planned Parenthood. The 2015-16 report shows
328,348 abortions performed by Planned Parenthood; in 2016, nine children were
killed in school shootings. Further, Taxpayers who oppose abortion are
forced to give Planned Parenthood $500 million a year… but opposing death by
abortion doesn’t get the guns out of American hands.

Perhaps we should call for demonstrations against anyone under age
21 having sex so unwanted pregnancies and resultant dead babies can be
eliminated. If such a law were passed, it would be just as effective as a
law that takes guns from the hands of law-abiding citizens. Criminals
will always get their hands on illegal guns just as healthy teenagers will find
a way to have sex if they have not been taught the discipline of how – and why
– to avoid it.

The list of problems goes on and on. How about some
solutions?

For example, how do we get rid of sanctuary cities?

If the Congress really wanted to get rid of sanctuary cities they
could pass a law stating that no city (incorporated or unincorporated) or
county or state can declare any population center a sanctuary without a vote of
the people. If this were the law of the land, there would be very few
sanctuary cities. Congress doesn’t want to eliminate sanctuary
cities or it would do so. Your County Commissioners could do the same for
your own county.

How about problems at Veterans Administration Hospitals?

Recruit physicians in the private sector to serve one day a week
(weekends included) at VA hospitals. Won’t that be expensive?
No. Rather than paying them a wage, have them multiply the number of
patients they treat by the amount of their usual per patient charge in the
civilian world. Let them deduct the total annual amount from their taxable income. Physicians always seek good tax shelters. This provides a
good one and is easily verifiable via existing VA patient computer records
already in place.

As liberal progressive Democrats keep heaping more and more
reasons for chaos upon your head, just keep focusing on finding solutions.

Avoid chaos. They want things to be so chaotic you can’t
think. When you can’t think,, you can easily be defeated. Remember
Joshua and what a small group of men did to a large defensive force at Jericho?

The Lord gave us a good example here on how to use chaos to bring
down an enemy that is much larger than you. And remember, the name
“Trump” comes from those trumpets the Lord told Joshua to blow as his small
contingent marched around the walls of Jericho… and the walls fell.

Those who want to end American nationalism in favor of world
government are using chaos against us. They want you to throw your arms
in the air and give up — let your walls come tumbling down. Ignore them
and avoid chaos.

You also might want to spend some time thinking about how Donald
Trump’s behavior in response to liberal chaos creates its own force. When
he speaks, liberal Democrats become chaotic.

About Me

Marilyn MacGruder Barnewall began her career in 1956 as a journalist with the Wyoming Eagle in Cheyenne. During her 20 years (plus) as a banker and bank consultant, she wrote extensively for The American Banker, Bank Marketing Magazine, Trust Marketing Magazine, was U.S. Consulting Editor for Private Banker International (London/Dublin), and other major banking industry publications. Barnewall taught private banking at Colorado University and has authored seven banking books, one dog book, and two works of fiction and one biography.
Barnewall is the former editor of The National Peace Officer Magazine and has written editorials for the Denver Post, Rocky Mountain News and Newsweek, etc. She has written for News With Views, World Net Daily, Canada Free Press, Christian Business Daily, Business Reform, and others. She has been quoted in Time, Forbes, Wall Street Journal and other national and international publications. She can be found in Who's Who in America (2005-10), Who's Who of American Women (2006-10), Who's Who in Finance and Business (2006-10), and Who's Who in the World (2008).